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give up more refined accomplishments, nor cease to 

 aspire to the noblest things in life, had weight with 

 me then ; and that maxim, backed by the most ardent 

 wish of Colonel Berkeley and others of my family, 

 made me acquiesce, the only stipulation being that 

 he should make an addition to my income. By these 

 means I hoped to be able to retain my hounds, and, 

 without much infringement on the sport to which I 

 was so fondly attached, faithfully to represent a 

 powerful constituency, while, at the same time, I 

 enabled him, by the support his purse afforded to 

 Lord John Russell's party, to win the titles that, on 

 certain conditions having to do with elections, the 

 Whigs were ready to assign him. Alas ! the step I 

 then took to please was a stone rolled up hill to fall 

 back on my own head, and, if not to crush me, still 

 to occasion me both trouble and unhappiness. I only 

 deal with this matter so far as it regards the main- 

 tenance of my hounds. The election in 1832 took 

 place. Mr. Henry Moreton, against the wish of the 

 late Colonel Kingscote, and many of those who styled 

 themselves liberals, declared that he would stand 

 with me, and, though I was remonstrated with for 

 doing so, I persisted in the declaration that, if he or 

 any other eligible person came forward on similar 

 principles to mine, I could do nothing else than take 

 hira by the hand. The result of the election was, 

 that I came in at the head of the poll, and Mr. 

 Augustus Moreton ahead by a small majority over 

 Lord Edward Somerset. 



There were no railways in those days, so I became 

 a constant passenger by Mr. Whitbread's coach, 

 driven by Crow, backwards and forwards to London. 

 At times, when a division took place in the Hous€ of 



